On 10 July, ADB approved the Power Transmission Grid Enhancement Project for Uzbekistan that will utilize $125 million loan to help transform the country’s power transmission grid, increase energy efficiency, and integrate more renewable energy. The load for the Digitize to Decarbonize – Power Transmission Grid Enhancement Project will also finance the rehabilitation of a total of 359 kilometers of 12 transmission lines in seven regions—Bukhara, Fergana, Kashkadarya, Samarkhand, Surkhandarya, Navoi, and Tashkent. The project will also finance the reconstruction and modernization of four 220-kilovolt substations in Faizabad, Obi-Khaet, Zafar, and Zarafshan, to increase their capacity to meet current and projected energy demand. Among its modernization efforts, the project will digitize the transmission grid by replacing old technology with modern high-voltage lines and substations ready to be connected to a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for enhanced control and management of dispatch in real time based real-time and historical data. The project is led by CWEN’s Nana Gurgenidze. ADB to Help Modernize Uzbekistan’s Power Transmission Grid